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History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850 / Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University).

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"This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Reimitz, Helmut
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; bk. 101.
Subjects:
Franks > Historiography.
Franks > Ethnic identity > History.
Merovingians > Historiography.
Carolingians > Historiography.
Ethnicity > Europe > History > To 1500.
Group identity > Europe > History > To 1500.
Christianity > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500.
Social change > Europe > History > To 1500.
Europe > Ethnic relations > History.
Europe > Social conditions > To 1492.
Christianity > Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Europe.
To 1500
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Communities of the Middle Ground in Sixth-Century Gaul
  • 1. Gregory of Tours and his genealogy of pastoral power in late antique Gaul
  • 2. Virtutes sanctorum et strages gentium : "The deeds of the saints and the slaughters of the peoples" : the radicalisation of church history
  • 3. The dangers of history
  • 4. Continuities and discontinuities : Roman and Frankish alternatives to Gregory
  • 5. The politics of identity in the Merovingian kingdoms of the sixth century
  • Part II. Countermyths : The Search for Origins in the Merovingian Kingdoms
  • 6. The persistence of Gregory's vision of community : the réécriture and reconfiguration of the Histories in the seventh century
  • 7. Iocundus in fabolis et strenuus in consiliis : Roman trickery and Frankish mythmaking in the Chronicle of Fredegar
  • 8." ... sicut ceterae gentes" : " ... like the other peoples" : the Liber historiae Francorum and the definition of the populus in the seventh and eighth century
  • 9. Spielräume of Frankish identity in the long seventh century
  • Part III. A Common Future : The Reforms of Frankish Identity under the Carolingians
  • 10. Gens Francorum inclita : "the illustrious Frankish people" : the centralization of Frankishness under the early Carolingians
  • 11. Correctio : the redefinition of central Frankishness
  • 12. Before and after 800 : central and local Frankishness in the Carolingian world
  • 13. Before and after 829 : the transformation of Frankish identity from the short to the long history of the Royal Frankish Annals
  • Conclusion: Frankish identity, Western ethnicity.

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